Immaterial Archives
Download or Read eBook Immaterial Archives PDF written by Jenny Sharpe and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Jenny Sharpe |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2020-03-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780810141599 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0810141590 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Immaterial Archives by : Jenny Sharpe
Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores instead the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and dreams that Caribbean artists and writers introduce into existing archives. Through the works of Frantz Zéphirin, Edouard Duval-Carrié, M. NourbeSe Philip, Erna Brodber, and Kamau Brathwaite, Immaterial Archives examines silences as black female spaces, Afro-Creole sacred worlds as diasporic cartographies, and the imaginative conjoining of spirits with industrial technologies as disruptions of enlightened modernity.
